Matthew Whitaker

Matthew George Whitaker (29 October 1969-) was the Acting US Attorney General from 7 November 2018, succeeding Jeff Sessions.

Biography
Matthew George Whitaker was born in Des Moines, Iowa in 1969, and he worked as a lawyer and as a corporate counsel before launching a failed 2002 bid for Treasurer of Iowa. In 2003, he founded Buy the Yard Concrete, and he became the US Attorney for the Southern District of Iowa in 2004, serving until 2009. Whitaker ran in the 2014 Iowa Republican primary for the US Senate, and he later wrote opinion pieces and appeared on talk-radio shows and cable news as director of a conservative advocacy group. From 2017 to 2018, he served as Attorney General Jeff Sessions' chief of staff, and he was appointed as his acting successor in November 2018 following President Donald Trump's sacking of Sessions.